Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
About Me:
Adolfo’s been a reporter at NPR affiliate KPCC since 2000. He’s reported on three L.A. mayors, four L.A. Unified superintendents, and covered the LAPD batons and rubber bullets flying at the May, 2007 MacArthur Park immigrant march. In 1994 he co-founded the poetry-performance group The Taco Shop Poets. He continues to wander the sidewalks, streets and freeways of Southern California searching for the right words for the sounds he hears.
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Pilar Marrero has a new book out. But like any good Latino in the U.S., it has two identities and two names.
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I went into the attic and dug out a banker's box sized container of Día de los Muertos paraphernalia.
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The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has been around nearly 30 years and it's never had an L.A chapter?
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The lurid hooked me but the straightforward narration of her body, her soul, her desire, her thirst, and her hunger for love and life kept me reading.
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I found the god of rain and water on Arlington Avenue, just a couple blocks south of the shuttered Washington Irving branch library.
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"National Public Radio is dismayingly white, and I think they know that and we all know that. That's not news. The question is what are they going to do about it."
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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez predicts a Los Angeles where Spanish is as accepted as hearing French in Quebec. Dual immersion education, in which a English is taught alongside another language, is changing things, he says.
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What I saw, heard, and the presence of a man not there didn't fully come together until I started to write a poem.
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I'm not ready for Mom to give me back my childhood mementos.
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I witnessed the ways in which hundreds of thousands of the people we work with, stand in line behind, watch Lakers games next to, and sit in traffic with in Southern California carry the genocide of their ancestors.
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Jesse Linares re-shaped the way the Spanish language news covers the region's significant Central American population. And did it with a passion to get the story first, get it right, and hold to account those with powerful and influence.
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When her Korean mother died about a year ago, she worried what would happen to her Koreaness in her hyphenated Korean-American life.
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Jenni, along with others of her generation who reject traditional roles, have captured the frustration of first generation Mexican-Americans.
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Outside MOCA Martin Lopez yells in Spanish at the top of his lungs, "Josefina Vazquez Mota, is the same thing, blood, violence, unemployment."
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Reading "Deepest Valley: A Guide to Owens Valley, Its Roadsides and Mountain Trails" on a recent trip up the 395 to Mammoth brought an avalanche of memories about the edges of town I've lived in.
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They sing in English and Spanish. Their violin, electric guitar, little jarana guitars, and wood box percussions blend into something more than Mexican, Mexican American, or American music.
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In L.A., adult education could also be called immigrant integration. That's what I found out on Tuesday covering one of the largest non-teacher protests I'd seen outside L.A. Unified School District headquarters.
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Meet Vanessa Libertad Garcia. She makes films, writes poetry and short stories. Recently she's been mining the sordid and beautiful fast life she shared with other 20-somethings right around the time of Barack Obama's election.
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Yes....
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The only way I can even get close to defining the Latino zeitgeist is to go back to all the people I've interviewed in the last 11 years as a daily reporter in L.A. Here are some of them.
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This show's mix of Mexican, Chicano, and art by Charles and Ray Eames and Julius Schulman is a temporary vision of the possibilities of a Latino museum in Southern California.
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The quality of Spanish language news in Southern California varies widely and it's been made worse, Arredondo said, by budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of reporters and editors.
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Commented on 3 L.A. Vignettes: A Turban-Wearing Superhero, an East L.A. Punk Rockera & the City's Poet
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The Arkestra is still active after Tapscott died in 1999. Here's a great description of Tapscott's epiphany in 1961: http://www.panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.com/history.htm...
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The current debate over son jarocho in L.A. ranges from expletive pissing matches online to a philosophical debate over the nature of community music building and the process by which a musical practice that's spiritual to many is carried out.
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The trovadores, the Spanish speaking troubadors of Los Angeles, will not forget May 1, 2007 in MacArthur Park. A group of them has released a CD of songs in tribute to the men, women, and children who suffered the pain of police batons and rubber bullets that day by LAPD officers in riot gear.
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They arrive torsos ripped down the middle, decapitated; fingers, hands, and toes severed.
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I brought out the casting couch for tamale auditions last week.
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¡It is! I'll be at the former OccupyLA at noon for a flogging....
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OK, thanks for the link, Adam....
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Commented on 3 L.A. Vignettes: A Turban-Wearing Superhero, an East L.A. Punk Rockera & the City's Poet
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The Arkestra is still active after Tapscott died in 1999. Here's a great description of Tapscott's epiphany in 1961: http://www.panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.com/history.htm...
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¡It is! I'll be at the former OccupyLA at noon for a flogging....
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OK, thanks for the link, Adam....
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I have intel that the typo gods are in Boca Raton until Dec 31....
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No, pelon, what's left to say about the actions?...
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Pelo-te-no, what's left to say?...
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Wow, you lived in that Spring Street loft? That's a great place. I remember visiting him years ago and seeing a wall-sized work in one of the hallways... I think he'd drawn on one of the walls, and had been...
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Olmos still organizes his bilingual book fair. A Catholic "couples" conference attended nearly entirely by Spanish speaking immigrants took up a much bigger hall at the convention center. Walking up to the building I thought all those people were book...
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Pilar Marrero has a new book out. But like any good Latino in the U.S., it has two identities and two names.
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I went into the attic and dug out a banker's box sized container of Día de los Muertos paraphernalia.
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The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has been around nearly 30 years and it's never had an L.A chapter?
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The lurid hooked me but the straightforward narration of her body, her soul, her desire, her thirst, and her hunger for love and life kept me reading.
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I found the god of rain and water on Arlington Avenue, just a couple blocks south of the shuttered Washington Irving branch library.
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"National Public Radio is dismayingly white, and I think they know that and we all know that. That's not news. The question is what are they going to do about it."
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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez predicts a Los Angeles where Spanish is as accepted as hearing French in Quebec. Dual immersion education, in which a English is taught alongside another language, is changing things, he says.
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What I saw, heard, and the presence of a man not there didn't fully come together until I started to write a poem.
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I'm not ready for Mom to give me back my childhood mementos.
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I witnessed the ways in which hundreds of thousands of the people we work with, stand in line behind, watch Lakers games next to, and sit in traffic with in Southern California carry the genocide of their ancestors.
